Jacques Essebag (born 10 March 1966), better known by his stage name Arthur, is a French television presenter, producer and comedian.

Like many Moroccan Jews, his parents left Morocco in 1967, during the Six-Day War[1] and settled in the Paris region, in Massy.

In 1991, he joined Fun Radio[2] to host programs from 6:30 am–9:00 am, in which he created games such as the provocative Orgasmotron (simulation of a live female orgasm).

There he hosted for four seasons Arthur et les pirates, between 4.30 pm-6.00 pm, with Maître Levy, Alexandre Devois (Captain Sboob), Princess Jade (met on Skyrock), Rémy Caccia and Michèle Bernier.

The humoristic team was composed of Maître Levy, Gad Elmaleh, Axelle Laffont, Tex, Gus (Gustave de Kervern of Groland), François Meunier (JC of Skyrock) and Philippe Lelièvre.

He alleged, in effect, that Cauet had previously made a joke about Nazi concentration camps[4] in 1995 and therefore refused to work on the same radio.

Fun Radio did not accept to let him go, arguing that the contract ended on 30 June 2005 and forced him to continue to host PlanèteArthur, in September 2004.

From September 2005 to February 2006, he hosted a new program, Radio Arthur, with Manu Levy, Jaz and Jonathan Lambert.

The program, aired on Friday night at midnight, was stylistically a mix of talk show and provocative sketches in the style of Howard Stern.

On France 2, he also hosted in 1996, La Fureur du samedi soir, a karaoke program co-presented by Pascal Sevran.

Les Enfants de la télé and the Christmas Eve remain at present his only TV shows.

In June 2011, Craig went to France with Kristen Bell and his robot sidekick, Geoff Peterson, during which he appeared on Arthur's show.

[12] In 2007, Arthur spent a casting to portray Pierre Brochan in Le Dîner de Cons, alongside Dany Boon.

[13] Francis Veber, the director, choose him and gave him the role of Pierre Brochan previously played by Claude Brasseur / Michel Roux on stage and Thierry Lhermitte in the film adaptation.

[14][15] The tour ended in March 2008, one month ahead of schedule, due to the success Dany Boon's Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis.

[19] In February 2009, three new performances were canceled and Arthur took a public stand in an article published in Le Monde in which he complained of being a victim of an anti-Semitic campaign.